Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

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Courthouse News

Supreme Court takes up GOP, Vance challenge to campaign finance limits - The case stems from JD Vance's 2022 Senate campaign and aims to overturn a 24-year-old Supreme Court precedent.
The Week

IAEA: Iran could enrich uranium 'within months' - The chief United Nations nuclear inspector, Rafael Grossi, says Iran could be enriching uranium again soon
memeorandum

Dwight Evans says he will retire from House (Politico) - Politico: *Dwight Evans says he will retire from House* — Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans said Monday he will not seek reelection “after some discussions ...
Raw Story

LGBTQ+ comedians are using humor to dilute fear - Esther Fallick wants her comedy to be an escape from the horrors. But that escape has a purpose: to make it easier to face these times for what they are....
The Hill

Graham claims sole authority to decide if GOP megabill complies with budget laws - The Senate’s presiding Republican chairman has ruled that Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has the sole authority to decide if provisi...
Daily Dot

“Abs by Temu”: Drake accused of using Photoshop, AI, or a surgeon for his latest thirst trap - [image: Left: Rapper Drake in a selfie Right: Rapper drake showing his abs in a selfie, with tweet overlay reading: "I'm crying that's hte fakest abs I'v...
Axios

Harvard's treatment of Jewish students violates Civil Rights law, Trump administration says - The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Monday that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by "acting with deliberate...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Secretary Resigns from Board and Subcommittees - Caryn Ann Harlos announced her resignation Sunday as Secretary of the Libertarian National Committee, citing a breakdown of trust with Chair Steven Nekha...
The NM Political Report

State Rep. McQueen announces candidacy for New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands - [image: State Representative and conservation attorney Matthew McQueen announced Monday his bid for New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands in the 2026 e...
Al Jazeera English

Wimbledon: Daniil Medvedev suffers shock first-round exit - Former world number one upset by Benjamin Bonzi of France on day one of third Grand Slam of the year.
Political Wire

Democrats Lay Groundwork for a ‘Project 2029’ - New York Times: “The plan to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic president is at the center of a raging debate within the party: whether its bigg...
The Verge

Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’ - Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode publishe...
Mediaite

Jake Sherman Predicts Trump-Backed Big Beautiful Bill ‘Is Going to Pass the Senate’ - Punchbowl News Founder Jake Sherman predicted that the GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" will pass in the Senate Monday night. The post Jake Sherman Predicts Tr...
Mediagazer

SCOTUS will review a dispute between Cox and major music labels after an appeals court threw out a $1B jury verdict against Cox over alleged piracy by customers (Blake Brittain/Reuters) - Blake Brittain / Reuters: *SCOTUS will review a dispute between Cox and major music labels after an appeals court threw out a $1B jury verdict against Co...
Election Law Blog

“Dems Fear a GOP Legal Blitz Around the Midterms” - This is from a piece at The Bulwark on developments at the DNC: DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE CONFIDENT they can retake the House in the 2026 midterms. But that...
Deadline Politics

Supreme Court To Hear Case On Whether Cox Communications Is Liable For Users’ Music Piracy - The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by Cox Communications over whether it should be held liable for music piracy by its users. The case could h...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: ‘Big, beautiful bill’ enriches companies running private immigration detention facilities - Deportation provisions in President Donald Trump’s budget bill deserve more scrutiny, Rep. Veronica Escobar says. The post Opinion: ‘Big, beautiful bill...
Slate

What Counts as Screentime? - Plus: sleepaway camp, sayonara stroller, and budgeting at the mall.
Houston Public Media

Texperts: How Do Gubernatorial Vetoes Work? - University of Houston political science professor and host of “Party Politics” Brandon Rottinghaus explains the veto power of the Texas governor and talks ...
Bonddad

Pay close attention to real personal spending on goods - - *by New Deal democrat* This week data arrives in two batches: a smaller batch (ISM manufacturing and construction spending) tomorrow, and a huge tr...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Party Spending - On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear National Republican Senatorial Committee v Federal Election Commission, 24-621, the case that challenges ...
Texas Standard

U.S. ginseng growers and animal breeders rely on exports to China. Now they wait on a trade deal - Specialty producers exporting to China have been hit just as hard as soybeans and beef. But they often have fewer alternative markets for their crops, wors...
Undernews

Fighting Trump’s anti-American efforts - *Sam Smith – *Although activist groups are increasingly using terms like *fascism *to describe the character of the Trump administration there is striking...
Daily Howler

ARRIVALS: How should we describe the current arrival? - *MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2025* *PBS shatters a rule:* We didn't say so last Friday afternoon. But when the Achaeans came over the walls, it was a type of arriva...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Man who helped girl attacked by shark in Florida detained by Ice officials - Luis Alvarez being held in jail after police stopped him and said he was driving without headlights on A man who helped rescue a nine-year-old girl after...
San Antonio Current

Cityscrapes: San Antonio’s new elected leadership should call Project Marvel timeout until details become clear - Cityscrapes is a column of opinion and analysis. Project Marvel keeps barreling ahead in a manner appropriate to its moniker. “Community planning workshop...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Trump’s Monstrous Disaster Bill is a War on the People of this Great Nation - Friends, Just a quick note— Please check out yesterday’s (June 29) *Reuters* article, which reports that Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” would a...
Dissident Voice

Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists - Orientation From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secula...
Mondoweiss

1,500 Israeli soldiers will attend Jewish summer camps this year — we must oppose this normalization of genocide - [image: An Israeli flag flying in the sun. (Photo: Flickr/Justin LaBerge)]This summer, 1,500 Israeli soldiers will attend Jewish summer camps across North ...
Discourse

People Don't Like Israel Because Israel Is Committing Genocide - That's it.
naked capitalism

Reverse Lysistrata: More on Men Cooling on Dating, Sex and the Role of Societal Denigration - More on how young men are having a hard time finding dates and romantic partners, and why this matters.
Environment Texas

Supreme Court rejects final Exxon appeal in historic Clean Air Act citizen enforcement case - The post Supreme Court rejects final Exxon appeal in historic Clean Air Act citizen enforcement case appeared first on Environment Texas.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 170: “Trump’s Big Beautiful Vote” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s Big Beautiful Voting Day on “The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan!” With producer Robby West filli...
Second Nexus

People Sound Off On What Caused Them To Fire Their Therapist - We thankfully live in a world where there's no longer a stigma surrounding therapy. Some people simply need professional help to deal with ongoing proble...
Rewire

Young Workers Least Likely To Have Parental Leave, Sick Days—Report - The U.S. is a global outlier in paid time off. And the youngest members of the workforce are the least likely to get the paid leave they need. Experts sa...
Glasstire

Review: “John Feodorov: Assimilations” at Tureen, Dallas - The two-year-old gallery Tureen is tucked into a Jefferson Boulevard storefront in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood that retains traces of its architectura...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Monday, June 30 - On Friday, June 27, the court issued its final opinions on the merits docket for the 2024-25 term. It decided the following cases: Trump v. CASA, Mahmoud...
First Draft

Last Day Of June - “Who calls the tune? Last day of June. Who speaks the truth? Last day of June. Who breaks the news? Last day of June.”
Democracy Now!

Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council - We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous p...
Rio Grande Guardian

An interview with RioPlex board member Carlos Garcia - RioPlex plans to host trade missions in Taiwan, Spain, and France before the year is out, says businessman and RioPlex board member Carlos Garcia. The po...
The Conversation

What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska - Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the climate depend on a healthy Arctic,...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2025 Issue - Partial remarks given at the 2025 MOLLY Prize Gala on May 28: Suddenly, it’s become a bit of a sad time for the Texas Observer community. Later in the pr...
Techdirt.

Supreme Court Cripples FCC Further, Making Robocall Enforcement Likely Impossible - Whether by dodgy Supreme Court ruling, executive order, mindless DOGE cuts, or captured regulators, the U.S. right wing, usually in lockstep with consolida...
Alternet

'I cannot remain quiet': Army officer defies orders to denounce Trump policy in scathing op-ed - A week into his second presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender Americans from enlisting or serving in the U.S. military. A...
Space City Weather

July will do July-like things in Houston - In brief: Today’s post looks back at a fairly typical June in Houston, and ahead to what we might expect in July. We are confident that the first week is g...
Vox

Can we ever understand our dogs? - Dog people tend to be pretty confident they know what’s going on with their animals. When we put out a call on the Explain It to Me podcast for dog owners...
The Greanville Post

Vijay Prashad: Beyond ‘Green Capitalism’ - VIJAY PRASHAD—The problem with the term Anthropocene (which began to be used first by scientists, then by social scientists) is that it implies that humans...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Remembrance of Times Past - No specific commentary on this one, beyond marveling that Dan Piraro makes Sundays such a pleasure. There used to be more Sunday strips that featured pains...
WhoWhatWhy

Zohran Mamdani, Bill Moyers, and Making People Mad - [image: Bill Moyers, Zohran Mamdani, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jeff Bezos] Movers and shakers are doing their thing. Can you feel the earth move under your fe...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Implasticfree.com’s Simona Paganetto on Building a Plastic-Free Marketplace One Brand at a Time - What if the solution to our plastics crisis isn’t just about individual behavior change but... The post Earth911 Podcast: Implasticfree.com’s Simona Paga...
Dorf on Law

Justice Alito's Opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is Dangerous and Gratuitously Dishonest - I'll start by giving credit where credit is due. In *Mahmoud v. Taylor*, Justice Alito, writing for the majority, rejects the defendant school board's co...
ProPublica

Connecticut’s New Towing Law Will Help Some, but Not All, Drivers. Here’s What They Told Us. - by Dave Altimari, Ginny Monk and Shahrzad Rasekh, The Connecticut Mirror This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnersh...
The Smirking Chimp

The Worst Bill in History -
Skeptophilia

News from Afar - I've written here before about the fact that the continents are in motion, something that is only *not* staggering because we've all known about it since...
The Root

All the Black-led Movies To See This Summer - Summer is here, which means it's time to go to the movies. Hollywood has cooked up plenty of flicks for everyone this year, from thrilling sports dramas ...
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Strengthens Conservative War on Education - The post SCOTUS Strengthens Conservative War on Education appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Can we say we’re sure we know CM Plummer’s intentions by now? - Tell me you’re running for County Judge without triggering the “resign to run” provision, somehow. For the second time in two weeks, information has inadve...
NPR's Health Shots

Click, speak, move: These brain implants are poised to help people with disabilities - People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games - Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who ...
Mother Jones

These New England Fishermen Made Peace With Offshore Wind. Trump Wants to End It. - This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit newsroom Canary Media and co-published by Mother Jones. Gary Yerman, 75, sat nervously in a noisy bal...
San Antonio Report

Here’s a look at what’s coming and going at the San Antonio airport - The recent level of activity on everything from airport improvement projects and air service to addressing a lawsuit has not slowed. -----------------------...
American Prospect

Labor Lines Up Behind Mamdani After Decisive Win - Three major unions backed New York Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani on Friday, a day after his main rival, disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, reportedly decided ...
Grist

In Georgia, sheep on a solar farm is not a baaad idea - We're losing vital agricultural land. But is solar the main culprit?
High Country News

In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing - Once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans. The post In Albuquerque, developers are t...
Counterpunch

The Wretched History of Regime - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to come to Washington in the next week or so, and probably will make his case for regime change in Iran. Ha...
jobsanger

A Potential Surge Of New Nuclear-Armed Countries -
Informed Comment

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics...
World Socialist Web Site

Top Australian union bureaucrats join Labor’s “economic reform roundtable” - The ACTU’s involvement in this event underscores the Albanese government’s increasing dependence on the trade union apparatus to suppress working-class opp...
Consortium News

It’s One Damned Crisis After Another - Don’t be misled by depending on corporate media to keep track of a world going off the rails. Support Consortium News for unvarnished insight into the cris...
The AltWorld

Practice Small, Daily Acts Of Sabotage Against The Imperial Machine: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Do something every day to help undermine public perception of the empire. Draw attention to its abuses […] The post Practice Small, Daily Acts Of Sabotag...
Antiwar.com

California Legislation Designed To Protect Israeli Apartheid and Genocide - Pro-Israel California legislators are taking a page out of Trump’s playbook to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic history and accurate port...
Popular Resistance

US Policy On Sudan Hurts Civilians Rather Than Warring Factions - As the war in Sudan enters its third year, experts, activists, and other community members say recent U.S. foreign policy is hurting, not helping, civili...
Workers World

Message from Tehran: ‘Iran will resist, will fight back and shall never be surrounded’ - [image: Message from Tehran: ‘Iran will resist, will fight back and shall never be surrounded’] The following messages from Global Resistance for Peace and...
Crooked Timber

The end of US democracy - I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Tru...
Portside

Sunday Science: Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama - Sunday Science: Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama Ira Sun, 06/29/2025 - 18:18
Liberation News

Trump’s budget bill: A huge gift to billionaires - There is a mad rush on the part of the GOP and Trump to get the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress.
OpEd News

Human Relationships in a Fraught World - Article discusses historic conflicts and human relationships going back to the Romans. Has human nature changed? That is a question to ponder.
See You In 2020

Victory won’t come on its own: the Axis of Resistance can only win if we wage a popular struggle alongside it - Above: Iran launching its missiles There can only be a successful resistance towards Washington’s war drive if we build the international workers force ...
Angry Bear

Republicans are Anti-Democracy - (Anti-De) Not all republicans, all Republican politicians. Who weren’t always. In my lifetime, in my children’s lifetimes, patriotic, democracy loving ...
Salon.com

“Not getting any money”: Trump says he’ll pull NYC’s federal funding if Mamdani wins mayorship - Trump threatened the city's federal funding on the same day that Mamdani said billionaires should not exist
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 29, 2025 - [image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 29, 2025] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 29, 2025 by Tony Wikrent *Remembering Bill Moyers: A ...
Debunking Christianity

Volume 2 of Chris Rodda's "Liars for Jesus" Is Now Available - [First published in August 2016. It's needed now more than ever!] I regard Chris Rodda's work in exposing the lies of David Barton and other Christians of ...
Claytoonz

DEI Cavalier - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What They Fear is Democracy: Audio From A Collapsing State - Discourse around Mamdani and the Supreme Court shares a simple theme: the powerful cannot stomach any conversation focused on democracy
Reform Austin

Texas Adopts Global Standard for Food Additive Warnings - A new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending shockwaves through the national food industry, setting a precedent that may ripple far beyond state...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Total Obliteration' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: School’s Out, Zohran’s In - Robots take over schools, a democratic socialist takes over New York, and more from The Lever this week.
Futurism

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains - When you die, your memories die with you — never to be experienced again, but will that be the case for the rest of human history? In an exercise to asse...
Wolf Street

The Historically Wide Spread between the 10-Year Treasury Yield and Mortgage Rates Widened Again: Some Thoughts - Mortgage rates, QT, yield spreads, inflation, and a bond market that is not to be trifled with.
Socialist Alternative

Workers Organize To Escalate The Fight Against Trump At Union Members Against ICE Meeting - Micaela is a co-president of GEO (AFT) Local 6297 in Chicago. On June 22, Socialist Alternative held a national organizing meeting to discuss how the labor...
ArcaMax

Trump's War Hype Falls Flat - Whatever United States military forces may have achieved in last week's brief attack on Iranian nuclear sites -- a question that will not be answered defin...
CultureMap Houston

Houston restaurant served Beyoncé a Southern feast for her first meal in H-Town - One of Houston’s most prominent Black-owned restaurants gave Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and her family their first taste of the Bayou City. On Friday night, th...
Infidel753

Computer note - My main computer is down. I probably will not be able to get it fixed until Monday. My ability to add posts or approve comments will be a bit limited unt...
Common Dreams

Bomb Bomb Iran: Idiot Mob Boss Declares Wack Victory - As evidence mounts America's reckless, illegal, peace-through-stupidity attacks on Iran's nuclear sites did not in fact "OBLITERATE" them and could inste...
Trivial Knot

Social justice and empiricism - I’ve toyed with the idea that one of the major values of social justice is basically empiricism. Social justice contains certain theories, but you can’t j...
Lowering the Bar

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases - [image: beaver release]An "underground network" of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.
Church and State

Not For Profit Medicine - I am not clear why more doctors do not choose to practice in a non-profit setting. There are many advantages, and few drawbacks.
slacktivist

LBCF: Grace and greed - In Left Behind, "salvation" is a choice driven by fear and greed. And Christian living is all about making other choices driven by fear and greed.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION. - *If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right.* Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution. I thought any de...
The Militant

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast! - Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party Working people the...
MintPress News

“I Was Brainwashed”: Greg Stoker on How the US Military Breaks Young Men - Former Army Ranger Greg Stoker talks to Lowkey about how the US military “breaks young men,” fuels Israel’s war in Gaza, and leaves its own veterans dest...
Capital & Main

LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom Fears - Anthony Orendorff was jailed for four days without bail before charges were dropped. The post LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom ...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Sludge

Chamber of Commerce Fights to Keep Wall Street Bonus Culture Alive - In comments to the SEC, the U.S. Chamber is pushing to scrap a proposal designed to rein in the short-term bonuses that fueled the 2008 financial crash.
Bracing Views

Donald Trump, Insulter-in-Chief - Teenage Boys Playing “Risk” Lead America! BILL ASTORE JUN 27, 2025 When I was in high school, my friends and I would get together and play “Risk,” the game...
Progressive.org

Stop the War Now, Before It Is Too Late - A call for an immediate end to unlawful military action and a move toward peaceful diplomacy.
Earthworks

Nickel waste floods homes in Indonesia, sparking protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel waste floods homes in ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Senate parliamentarian order removal of gender-affirming care ban from Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Senate parliamentarian orders removal of gender-affirming care ban from GOP reconciliation bill *- *I'm personally opposed to the bill in general bein...
The Grayzone

Funcionario de Trump: el director de la CIA “toma dictado” del Mossad sobre Irán - Un funcionario de la administración Trump le cuenta a The Grayzone que el Mossad israelí está usando al director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe y al jefe del ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP - Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working f...
Project Censored

The Problem with AI War Games - Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions. Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-...
Bud Kennedy

A year in jail for a THC snack? Texans are unhappy with Republicans | Opinion - Texans are sick of our elected officials. But probably not sick enough to get rid of any of them. We don’t like any of our state leaders, according to a … ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging into a New 2024 Postmortem: Findings from Pew’s Validated Voter Study - Pew's validated voter study of 2024 just published -- what does it tell us, and how does it compare to other 2024 analyses? The post Digging into a New 2...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Debunking Cannabis Potency Myths - [image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower][image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower]Unlike alcohol (which is readily ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
Ecosophia

June 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
ROAR Magazine

Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal - Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal Table of Contents O que é a proteção jurídica para apostadores desportivos...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-30 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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